Re: [Qemu-devel] Open Hack'Ware 0.4 release candidate

[J. Mayer]

On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 02:56 +0000, Natalia Portillo wrote:
> What you say about the BeOS:
> 
> The BeOS kernel isn't in the ISO part of the CD-ROM, but in the Big  
> Endian BeFS part of it.

I did not say the kernel was in the El-Torito image.
I just said the CDROMs I got contain ISO filesystems.

> The BeBox firmware understand this system and loads the PEFF kernel as  
> I commented you a time ago.
> The BeOS Loader for MacOS seems to load the kernel from the BeFS also  
> and then let control to it removing MacOS from memory.

I though I remembered booting directly BeOS CDROM on a Mac, but I may be
wrong on this point...

> For getting BeOS compatibility there are two ways:
> First of all, emulate a BeBox. This shouldn't be a very hard way, as  
> the BeBox is simply a PReP machine with a lot of chips (SCSI, UARTs,  
> etc) and with an specific BIOS (I think, not similar to OpenFirmware at  
> any point).
> Second of all, see how the BeOS Loader loads the kernel in a MacOS. The  
> loader don't like at all the software ROM, and probably ignores totally  
> OpenFirmware and relies to ToolBox to get loaded and then do hardware  
> probes (it does directly SCSI commands to load the system on a real  
> Macintosh.)

For now, I'm not in a hurry to see BeOS booting...
I just made a try and saw that it failed. Moreover, I think it would
only boot on OldWorld Macs, that are not supported in qemu.

> About Windows NT did you get the kernel to load?
> I have also 3.5 and 3.51 so I can help you also in this.
> 
> About Pegasos and MorphOS did you pass ago the UART check we had  
> problems before?

I did not tried hard to make MorphOs and NT boot in qemu.
My first goals are to have all Linux kernel booting, then all BSD
(including MacOS X).
Feel free to make tries and add a new hardware target for Pegasos or
make NT boot.

> You know I offer my help for anything, and I have know more spare time  
> than before.

If you'd like to make NT and/or MorphOs boot in qemu, I can give you
support and add what's needed in OHW. It would be great if it works, but
it's not my priorities, there's still a lot of work to do before
qemu-PPC / OHW can reasonably be considered as "production-ready"
software for the end user.


> El 20/03/2005, a las 13:39, J. Mayer escribió:
> 
> > I just released OHW-0.4-rc
> > If no more regression is found, this will become the current version
> > used in Qemu-PPC.
> > Please try it and report unknown problems or successes, if any.
> >
> > You'll find the binary image here:
> > <http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/0.4/OpenHackWare-0.4- 
> > rc_bin.tar.bz2>
> > the sources with subversion informations here:
> > <http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/0.4/OpenHackWare-0.4- 
> > rc_svn.tar.bz2>
> > and the updated status here:
> > <http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/0.4/README>

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J. Mayer <address@hidden>
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